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Last revised: 29 February 2008

National Planning Application Forms (1-app)

Local Validation Checklist for the completion of 1-app Forms

Introduction

The Government is introducing a set of national planning application forms that will be able to be used in any local planning authority in the country. This has been given the name of the 1-app project. By October 1st 2007 these will be the only forms that an applicant will be able to use to submit a planning application. This will do away with the need to complete a different set of forms for each local authority.

To make a valid planning application, the 1-app forms will contain a section that will require that applicants supply the local information required by each local planning authority to register an application. This information should be displayed by the local planning authority on its web site and is known as the Local Validation Checklist.

Kennet has compiled a draft Local Validation Checklist for each of the different types of planning application that we deal with. This will not be finalised until the Government has produced details of the Regulations that will formally introduce the national planning application form. The draft list is set out below. Comments on the contents of this list (including any omissions) should be submitted online to the Council at dev.control@kennet.gov.uk. Any comments received will be taken into account before the list is finalised.

Until the introduction of the national planning application form, the existing applications forms for planning permission and householder applications, available on-line on the Council’s web site, already include checklists of the information that is required to validate an application. For all other applications, the checklist below should be used to ensure that applicaitons are properly completed before being submitted to the Council.

(Updated March 7th 2007)

Kennet District Council Local Requirements

Householder applications

  1. Plans

  • Scaled block plan of site (eg scale of 1:500)

  • Scaled existing & proposed elevations (eg scale of 1:100)

  • Scaled existing & proposed floor plans (eg scale of 1:100)

  1. Other Information

  • When in Environment Agency Flood Zone - Flood risk assessment

Full Planning applications

1. Plans

  • Scaled block plan of site (eg scale of 1:500)

  • Scaled existing & proposed elevations (eg scale of 1:100)

  • Scaled existing & proposed floor plans (eg scale of 1:100)

  • Site survey plan (eg scale of 1:200) showing existing and proposed levels & features (eg walls/fences/trees/roads/parking areas) and identifying any proposed for removal.

2. Other Information

  • For agricultural/equestrian dwellings - appraisal identifying how the proposal meets the requirements of PPS 7;

  • For agricultural buildings - statement explaining need for building;

  • For new restaurant/takeaway/public house proposals - proposals for ventilation/extraction (including plans showing location & design);

  • For proposals involving the felling of protected trees or work within the canopy of protected trees - tree survey & report;

  • For proposals where protected species are know/suspected to be present - protected species survey and report;

  • For all new build residential; commercial; community buildings - sustainability statement (including details of any renewable energy proposals; water/waste recycling);

  • For residential development of 5 or more dwellings - statement outlining how recreational provision requirement identified in Local Plan will be met (on site/commuted sum/ mixture);

  • For development that includes affordable housing - affordable housing statement

Major Developments (10 houses or more) - in addition to above

  • Statement of community involvement;

  • Transport Assessment;

  • Details of proposed planning obligations (including draft Head(s) of Terms;

Outline Planning applications

1. Plans

  • Scaled block plan of site (eg scale of 1:500)

  • Site survey plan (eg scale of 1:200) showing existing features (eg walls/fences/trees/roads/parking areas)

  • Where all matters are reserved for subsequent approval, scaled plans (eg 1:200) showing the following details:

  • Layout – must state the approximate location of buildings, routes and open spaces included in the development;

  • Scale – must state the upper and lower limit for the height, width and length of each building included in the development;

  • Access – must state the area or areas where access points to the development will be situated

  • Where any matter is to be determined at the outline stage, scaled plans (eg 1:200 for layout or 1:100 for appearance or scale) of the matters proposed for approval

2. Other Information

  • For agricultural/equestrian dwellings - appraisal identifying how the proposal meets the requirements of PPS 7;

  • For agricultural buildings - statement explaining need for building;

  • For proposals involving the felling of protected trees or work within the canopy of protected trees - tree survey & report;

  • For proposals where protected species are know/suspected to be present - protected species survey and report;

  • For all new build residential; commercial; community buildings - sustainability statement (including details of any renewable energy proposals; water/waste recycling);

  • For residential development of 5 or more dwellings - statement outlining how recreational provision requirement identified in Local Plan will be met (on site/commuted sum/ mixture);

  • For development that includes affordable housing - affordable housing statement

Major Developments (10 houses or more) - in addition to above

  • Statement of community involvement;

  • Transport Assessment;

  • Details of proposed planning obligations (including draft Head(s) of Terms;

Reserved Matters applications

1. Plans

  • Scaled block plan of site (eg scale of 1:500)

  • Scaled layout plan (eg scale of 1:200) showing location of proposed roads, open spaces and buildings in relation to each other and existing features

  • Scaled proposed elevations (eg scale of 1:100)

  • Scaled proposed floor plans (eg scale of 1:100)

  • Scaled landscape plan (eg scale of 1:200) showing existing and proposed levels and features (eg walls/fences/trees)

2. Other Information

  • For all new build residential; commercial; community buildings - sustainability statement (including details of any renewable energy proposals; water/waste recycling - unless already fully detailed at outline approval);

Major Developments (10 houses or more) - in addition to above

  • Statement of community involvement;

Advertisement Consent

1. Plans

  • Scaled existing & proposed elevations (eg scale of 1:100) showing advertisement size; nature and colour of materials to be used; height above ground; extent of projection; and where illumination proposed, design and appearance of means of lighting.

Listed Building Consent

1. Plans

  • Scaled block plan of site (eg scale of 1:500)

  • Scaled existing & proposed elevations (eg scale of 1:100)

  • Scaled existing & proposed floor plans (eg scale of 1:100)

  • Scaled plans (eg 1:20) to show all new windows; doors; shopfronts; and any new features proposed to be installed in existing building, such as panelling; fireplaces; plaster moulding

2. Other information

  • Heritage statement explaining the justification for the proposed alterations/ extensions/demolition of the listed building

  • Where structural alterations to the listed building are proposed, a structural survey

Conservation Area Consent

1. Plans

  • Scaled block plan of site (eg scale of 1:500)

  • Scaled existing elevations (eg scale of 1:100)

  • Scaled existing floor plans (eg scale of 1:100)

  • Scaled proposed plans showing plans showing appearance of the site post-demolition

2. Other information

  • Heritage statement explaining the justification for the proposed demolition of the building

  • A structural survey of the building to be demolished

Lawful Development Certificate for an existing use or operation or activity

1. Plans

  • Where the application relates to an existing use, scaled existing floor plans (eg scale of 1:100) clearly identifying area subject of the claimed use

  • Where the application relates to an operation, scaled existing elevations (eg scale of 1:100) clearly identifying the operations subject of the claim

2. Other information

  • Sworn affidavit(s) or statutory declaration(s) from people with personal knowledge of the existing use/operation/activity

  • A Planning Statement clearly setting out the extent of the use or operation/activity and the basis for the application

Lawful Development Certificate for a proposed use or development

1. Plans

  • Where the application relates to a proposed use, existing and proposed floor plans (eg scale of 1:100) clearly identifying area subject of the proposed use

  • Where the application relates to a proposed development, scaled existing and proposed elevations (eg scale of 1:100)

2. Other information

  • A Planning Statement clearly setting out the extent of the proposed use or explaining the nature of the proposed development

Prior notification of proposed agricultural or forestry development

1. Plans

  • Scaled block plan of site (eg scale of 1:500)

  • Scaled proposed elevations (eg scale of 1:100)

  • Scaled proposed floor plans (eg scale of 1:100)

2. Other information

  • Planning statement outlining the reasons why the building is required, including details of size of holding and any increases in livestock or change in operations giving rise to need for building

Prior notification of proposed telecommunications development

1. Plans

  • Scaled block plan of site (eg scale of 1:500)

  • Scaled proposed elevations (eg scale of 1:100)

  • Scaled proposed layout plan (eg scale of 1:100)

2. Other information

  • Planning statement outlining the reasons why the equipment is required and the justification for siting it in the proposed location, including details of alternative sites considered and reasons for rejecting them

  • Signed declaration that the proposed equipment and installation fully complies with the ICNIRP requirements

Prior notification of proposed demolition

1. Plans

  • Scaled block plan of site (eg scale of 1:500)

  • Scaled existing elevations (eg scale of 1:100)

  • Scaled existing floor plans (eg scale of 1:100)

  • Scaled proposed plans showing plans showing appearance of the site post-demolition

2. Other information

  • Planning statement outlining the reasons why demolition is required.